How Silicon Valley Could Do a Lot More To Stop Gun Deaths But Isn’t

Sig Sauer Inc. handguns are displayed in a shop window in Lugano, Switzerland, on Thursday Nov. 19, 2015. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Sig Sauer Inc. handguns are displayed in a shop window in Lugano, Switzerland, on Thursday Nov. 19, 2015. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images

So far this year in the U.S. there have been over 325 children (11 years old and younger) unintentionally injured or killed by a firearm. Last year, over 200 American adults were unintentionally shot by a child using a gun, with more than 80 fatalities. There also will be more than 20,000 suicides by firearm, often by teens or young adults who use a gun owned by their parents.